If you’ve ever wondered why drivers of big trucks and buses are reluctant to pull off the side of the road, wonder no more. Around nine this morning the unlucky man behind the wheel of this loaded cement mixer put two wheels onto the soft shoulder of the Northern Highway at Bella Vista, and before […]
She was returning to the jewel after eighteen years in Los Angeles…but Shawn Smith’s homecoming to the land of her birth lasted only a matter of hours. After a long trip through Mexico, she managed to hitch a ride with a family headed to Belize City. That ride ended just before midnight on Saturday night. […]
Meanwhile, a man has been arrested in connection with another deadly accident that occurred in the Cayo District over the weekend. According to San Ignacio police around twelve-fifteen on Sunday afternoon, twenty-three year old Jorge Freissen, a resident of Spanish Lookout, was driving his Plymouth van on the Spanish Lookout Road toward Blackman Eddy. Inside […]
Another Mennonite child has died in a traffic mishap caused by a family member. One-year-old Giana Kornelson was killed on Thursday when her aunt, twenty-year-old Anita Loewen, ran the child over with her Ford F-150 pickup while driving in the family’s yard in Spanish Lookout. Police are investigating. In a similar incident last weekend in […]
Belmopan police are still investigating the cause of a traffic accident on the Western Highway which claimed the life of a young woman from Belmopan. She is twenty-one year old Jamie Lee Zelaya. Reports are that just before seven on Tuesday evening, Zelaya, her seventeen-year-old brother Moamar, and two other people were heading from Belize […]
A Salvadoran living in the Orange Walk District has been arrested after he allegedly knocked down and killed a cyclist on Saturday night. According to police, fifty-nine year old Maximiliano Sarceno, a Guatemalan living in Guinea Grass Village, was riding his bicycle on the Guinea Grass Road around nine-thirty when he was struck by a […]
And not far away, in Shipyard, a one-year-old child is dead after being run over by his father’s tractor. Thirty-three year old Peter Friesen told police that around seven-thirty Friday morning he accidentally ran over his son Abraham. The infant was rushed to the Northern Regional Hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival. Friesen has […]
We have heard about the city’s shortage of parking spaces, but this is carrying things a bit too far. Around five this evening this Nissan Frontier was making a turn from South Street onto West Canal when a pickup truck belonging to the Customs Department travelling south on West Canal ran the stop sign. It […]
A traffic accident on the Iguana Creek road this afternoon claimed the life of an eighteen-year-old man from Blackman Eddy Village. Jareth Ireland was knocked off his bicycle by a Mitsubishi pickup driven by thirty-four year old Elvis Cadle. The Burrel Boom resident told police that he was attempting to overtake two other vehicles on […]
Another policeman is in trouble, this time in Belmopan. The allegations are that he drove drunk, knocked a cyclist to his death, and sped off into the night. Not surprisingly, the victim’s family is both distraught and angry. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This afternoon, Inspector of Police Cardinal Smith appeared in Belmopan Magistrate Curt where he […]
Another collision between a vehicle and pedestrian has left a person dead. Five-year-old Tue Young was knocked down by a car as he crossed Vernon Street on Sunday evening. Driver of the vehicle, sixty-three year old Allan McKoy of Lord’s Bank, told police the child darted out suddenly in front of his vehicle. Young died […]
It looks a lot worse than it was, but that isn’t to say the accident could not have been deadly. This afternoon on the Western Highway this new Suzuki Vitara flipped over near mile thirty-three. The driver, O.A.S. representative in Belize, Kenrick Texel, told News 5 that he lost control of the vehicle as it […]
Two Belizeans have died in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, thirty-five year old Ramon Pacheco lost his life when the driver of the car in which he was riding lost control of the vehicle and it flipped over on the approach to the Guatemalan border. Pacheco died on the spot of […]
It did not appear on the original weekend police blotter, maybe because there were no serious injuries, but a spectacular accident on the Northern Highway caused quite a commotion in Belize City Saturday night. According to police, this Suzuki Side Kick sitting on top of a Mazda pickup originally collided into the side of a […]
He was making a routine landing at Belize City Municipal after five this evening when an unusual thing happened: his seat broke. As a result, pilot Michael Bowen lost control of his Cessna and it ran off the side of the runway. The plane suffered some structural damage and Bowen, the aircraft’s sole occupant, was […]
A man was killed on the Northern Highway by a hit and run driver over the weekend. Police say the body, later identified as Daniel Sandoval of Trial Farm Village, was found lying on the side of the road between miles fifty-seven and fifty-eight around seven o’clock Sunday night. Sandoval’s beach cruiser bicycle was found […]
Also this weekend, a traffic accident on Holy Saturday resulted in the death of a Belize City man. According to police, forty-five year old Winston Smith was a passenger in a Grand Cherokee, which was traveling on the Western Highway towards Belize City when the vehicle crashed into the Roaring Creek Bridge. Winston Smith suffered […]
Later in this newscast we will air a story about the observance of World Health Day, which for the first time is focussing on traffic accidents as a major health problem. Of course, it’s just a coincidence, but tonight we open our coverage with a road mishap… although this particular type of fender bender does […]
A traffic accident last night on the Western Highway has claimed the life of a fifty-year-old woman and left her husband hospitalised in Belmopan. Around ten o’clock last night, two small pickup trucks were travelling in opposite directions in Camalote Village when somehow they collided. The impact of metal meeting metal sent one of the […]
In the past four days, three persons have died in the Belize District following accidents on the Northern Highway. In the latest fatality, thirty-eight year old Henry Sedacey, a resident of Gardenia Village, lost his life on Monday evening after he was knocked off his bicycle. According to police, they have detained the driver of […]
There were four serious accidents over the weekend. On Friday evening a seven-year-old girl from Colombia Village in Southern Belize was struck by a Toyota Hilux. Police say Zoe Nesbitt was attempting to cross the road when she was hit by the truck, sustaining fatal head and body injuries. The driver has been detained pending […]
There was a fatal accident on the road between San Ignacio and Benque on Thursday. Pedro Caretella, a forty-six year old resident of Esperanza Village, apparently lost control of his Isuzu Trooper sometime around midnight and it overturned. He was thrown from the vehicle and landed fifty feet away. Caretella was pronounced dead on arrival […]
An American woman was killed in a traffic accident near the Santa Elena border on Sunday. Sixty-six year old Lucy Moss was a passenger in a Geo Tracker that ran off the road and into a parked Toyota Prado. The driver of the Tracker, sixty-eight year old American Dale Marshall, told police another vehicle overtook […]
It is becoming an all too common story, and frequently one with a very sad ending: children being knocked down. Over the weekend, it happened again, and although the latest victim is recovering, the driver is still unidentified, and the child and his mother are still shaken from the experience. Karl Malic, Knocked down off […]
A twenty-year-old man from Esperanza died Friday night after his Isuzu Trooper flipped over on the Western Highway. Abraham Lopez succumbed to his injuries at the San Ignacio Hospital, while his two passengers, twenty-five year old Jose Lopez and nineteen year old Kerry Lopez, were hospitalised. The incident occurred between miles sixty-seven and sixty-eight sometime […]
